Gov Agency Tells People to Register to Vote in Wisconsin, Not Prove Residency

By: briansikma (Diary)  |  October 17th at 03:00 PM  | 

A loophole in the law has led to a state agency in Wisconsin urging would-be voters to register to vote for the November election without proving they are in fact Wisconsin residents, Media Trackers has learned. State law says that anyone who registers to vote 20 days or more before an election does not have to prove they are a resident in order to vote at a Wisconsin polling place. Wisconsin is a battleground state as both parties find the road to the White House and control of the U.S. Senate running directly through it.

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Wisconsin Sheriff Says He Won’t Stop Voter Fraud

By: briansikma (Diary)  |  October 9th at 11:15 AM  | 

As polls show support for President Obama sagging in the battleground state of Wisconsin, the sheriff in one of the state’s most populous Democratic counties says he wants inmates to vote and his deputies to ignore the felon status some of them might have. Wisconsin state law prohibits felons from voting while they are serving jail time or on parole. Sheriff Dave Mahoney of Dane | Read More »

Wisconsin Judge Guts Walker’s Reforms (Again), Defends Left’s Assured Outcomes Ideology

By: briansikma (Diary)  |  September 14th at 11:11 PM  | 

Late Friday afternoon a liberal Dane County judge struck down key parts of Wisconsin’s collective bargaining reforms. The measure dealing with public sector unions has been at the heart of a protected political battle that started with large street demonstrations at the state capitol when the measure was introduced, and culminated early this summer with the overwhelming re-election of Governor Scott Walker in an historic | Read More »

Spouse of WI Gubernatorial Recall Candidate Breaks Rules

By: briansikma (Diary)  |  May 14th at 04:09 PM  | 

Promoted from the diaries By: Brian Sikma Kris Barrett, the politically active spouse of Tom Barrett, current mayor of Milwaukee and the Democratic nominee running against Gov. Scott Walker, has been caught using her taxpayer funded e-mail account to lobby and campaign for Democratic candidates and causes. Mrs. Barrett is a public school teacher and last year she was employed by Milwaukee Public Schools, Wisconsin’s | Read More »

FRACTURED: Labor, Dem Split in WI Could Hurt Electoral Prospects

By: briansikma (Diary)  |  March 9th at 01:13 PM  | 

By: Brian Sikma This week Wisconsin Democrats may have done more than anyone else to defeat their recall effort aimed at removing Governor Scott Walker, Lt. Governor Rebecca Kleefisch, and three state senators from office. Driving the debate in Wisconsin for the past several weeks was legislation to overhaul the state’s outdated mining regulations. At stake was a proposed iron ore mine in the northern | Read More »

Double Standard: Wisconsin’s Leading “Progressive Talk” Host Says “I can kill [Breitbart]“

By: briansikma (Diary)  |  March 6th at 10:54 AM  | 

A quaint pastime of late for the mainstream media has been calling out radio talk show hosts for the stupid things they occasionally say. Make that conservative talk show hosts, because the entire spectrum of so-called “progressive” talk radio is going completely unnoticed. A case could be made that this is because liberal talk radio has a listenership of irrelevantly miniscule proportions when compared to | Read More »